2020

SZ0895 : Northbourne: Headswell Avenue

taken 4 years ago, near to Ensbury, Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole, England

Northbourne: Headswell Avenue
Northbourne: Headswell Avenue
Headswell Avenue is a longish road in the relatively well-to-do suburb of Northbourne, taking a course on the flat top of Red Hill before swinging in a big curve, as seen here, down the hill to meet Wimborne Road at an acute angle. The sharp left turn coming down the hill here onto Wimborne Road really is tight.

The sign is from around 2000, and it morphed into another design, in blue rather than green and far more widely seen, including BOURNEMOUTH BOROUGH COUNCIL in smaller letters at the top, and the borough coat of arms on the left.

This is photo no.185 of a series of 453 in my coronavirus lockdown walking project:
See Link for the complete set of photos.
My coronavirus lockdown walking project :: SZ0795

In response to the global coronavirus pandemic, on 23 March 2020 the government announced a lockdown which effectively confined people to their homes, apart from essential journeys which included vital shopping, to help vulnerable people, and one period of exercise per day.

There was speculation about whether driving to a place of exercise, such as a beauty spot, was acceptable and guidelines were quickly made, that exercise should take place locally and direct from home.

So I drew a 2km radius around my home on a map and set out to walk along, across or past every named street and footpath within this circle.

I found that there are 451 such roads/paths, not including roads whose postal address is part of another road already included (such as some Courts, Terraces and Mews).

I undertook to take a photo of a sign for each one, mainly with some context of the road itself. They can all be viewed, along with my 2km map, here: Link


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Geographical Context: Suburb, Urban fringe Roads, Road transport Primary Subject: Road other tags: Road Road Sign Suburb Hill Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Articles: · My 2020 Coronavirus Lockdown walking project Automatic Clusters: · Headswell Avenue [30] · Road Sign [23] · Red Hill [7] · Meet Wimborne Road [4] ·
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Chris Downer   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Friday, 10 April, 2020   (more nearby)
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Friday, 5 June, 2020
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OSGB36: geotagged! SZ 0858 9596 [10m precision]
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OSGB36: geotagged! SZ 0861 9596
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